Anime endings that disappointed you...

[strawberryjuice]

Was there ever an ending to an anime series you like that you wish was better?

what comes to mind for me was the ending to princess tutu..
It was just one of those cases where I wish ALL of the characters had a happy ending. Not saying it was depressing but I was sad to see ahiru still a duck and not finding love.

also, inb4 digimon.

[Cartoon X]

Dragonball Z had such an unstisfying ending. Thankfully GT gave the franchise a satisfactory ending.

[Lighthammer]

Blue Gender!!!!

The story had a neat progression and a very compelling story.

The last episode just ended with a complete OMGWTFBBQZ ending. It was so detatched from the story and so weird that it felt like an intentional troll.

I wasn't a fan of the way YYH ended either, although I fully admit it wasn't terrible.

Gundam 00 is a recent one that had a amazingly horrid ending. I mean it ended with the Gundam version of a Care Bear Steer out of no where. How does it get worse then that ? At least in Char's Revenge when something kinda similar happened, there was a compelling reason why. In Gundam 00, people they were fighting to the death against 5 minutes ago magically united without a compelling reason.

[Nel]

Never really liked the show to begin with, but the ending to Wolf's Rain just confused the hell out of me.

[RockmanDash]

Rockman EXE

The show had five seasons and the final season "Beast+" ended it horribly. Yay Netto and Rockman defeat Cache! .....That's it? Oh no wait Mayl jumps and hugs Netto for the fifth billion time. And what about Forte? What about Alpha? Those two could of made a good last 26 episode season worth to finish the series off.

It's sad because the writers ditched EXE for Star Force which got canned on it's second season.

[Grave]

Bad endings and shows ending with cliff hangers never really bothered me. However, Trinity Blood does come to mind though.

To have such a battle between Cain and Abel come to an end where you don't know who the victor was, not to mention it goes off with Abel saying something about the battle not being over..

Yeah, that had me like "what...?" But I do understand why it ended the way it did seeing how the creator passed before he/she could finish it. (R.I.P.)

[defunctzombie]

Bad endings and shows ending with cliff hangers never really bothered me. However, Trinity Blood does come to mind though.

To have such a battle between Cain and Abel come to an end where you don't know who the victor was, not to mention it goes off with Abel saying something about the battle not being over..

Yeah, that had me like "what...?" But I do understand why it ended the way it did seeing how the creator passed before he/she could finish it. (R.I.P.)
I haven't gotten my last manga volume yet or the rest of the light novels, but but I think the anime is on it's own tangent. The whole thing was a mish-mash of the different stories. They had a lot to work with that they left out (GUN METAL HOUND, anyone? ;)).

It is sad that we lost Sunao Yoshida. I really liked his style.
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I disliked Ninja Scroll's ending...

I didn't want Kagero to die!

[strawberryjuice]

It's sad because the writers ditched EXE for Star Force which got canned on it's second season.
LOL oh wow really? I wondered what the heck happened to that show. They only aired like what? 3 episodes on cartoon network and that was it..

also imo, the whole megaeman.exe anime in general was terrible... Pick up the manga and you won't be disappointed.

[Mandouga]

I didn't like the way The Mysterious Cities of Gold ended. Esteban, an orphan, traveled from Spain all the way to South America searching for his father, but the "reunion" doesn't occur until the final episode, and there, Esteban doesn't even know it's his father, but his father recognizes him, and in his disguise he tells Esteban that he needs to "find [his] own star". To add insult to injury, the final episode actually ends with Esteban, Zia, and Tao continuing their journey to find the "other Cities of Gold". What I don't like about this ending other than being a set up for a "second season" that never came is the fact, that Esteban had reunited with his father, but now he'll be living the rest of his life never knowing it. An orphan traveled halfway around the world finding a missing relative, only for the missing relative to essentially blow him/her off? Nuts to that, 16th century or not.

Well, anyway, it was an ending I certainly didn't expect.

[soundmonkey44]

Dragonball Z had such an unstisfying ending. Thankfully GT gave the franchise a satisfactory ending.

LOL WUT??????:sweat:


I disagree my Friend..Toryama's origional Ending in Z was just fine. I left space for the Franchise to continue at a later point (As seen in the Recent Special Son Goku & Friends Return.)


For me Im Gonna Say the Ending the the Strawberry 100% manga...That was just....Sad. not as in boo hoo sad..but man thats lame sad.

Anime wise...I was Dissapointed by the way the Kenshin anime ended...I mean the whole last season was nothing but filler, thats why I only acknowledge the 1st 2 seaons..& Only the manga ending. :sweat:

[Scirel]

also, inb4 digimon.


You can't stop people from saying it. Digimon 02 will ALWAYS get mentioned in a topic with this title. ALWAYS. XD

[garfield15]

More like inb4Gundam Seed Destiny.

Mai-Hime's ending was just so darn lackluster compared to the rest of the awesome series. I mean, it's likethey go through all that crap, we get tons of character development, the story is as dark as it can be....and then everybody's back to life and things are normal again. It's like the whole battle didn't even happen
Also, Rurouni Kenshin and Inuyasha. These are self-explanatory.

[Urusei Yatsura]

More like inb4Gundam Seed Destiny.

Mai-Hime's ending was just so darn lackluster compared to the rest of the awesome series. I mean, it's likethey go through all that crap, we get tons of character development, the story is as dark as it can be....and then everybody's back to life and things are normal again. It's like the whole battle didn't even happen
Also, Rurouni Kenshin and Inuyasha. These are self-explanatory.

Saying the original InuYasha would be correct, but with the new series wrapping things up, you can't really say that... I guess?

I think I liked most of the anime endings I've watched...? I mean, I know the Ranma anime had a bad ending, but I haven't seen all of it...

[SamTheGreek]

Big O
Eureka Seven (though I didn't like the series in general)
Fate/Stay Night
Final Fantasy Unlimited
InuYasha
Kenshin
Paranoid Agent
Scryed
Trinity Blood (but again, didn't like the series in general)
Witch Hunter Robin (believe it or not, I saw the ending without falling asleep)
Wolf's Rain

... I want to say Evangelion too... but maybe not.
It wasn't a bad ending.
It was just... wth.

[Kaiser0120]

Fullmetal Alchemist.

Seriously? Alternate worlds? Sloth is their mom? Totally abandoned all the comedy and spirit of the first half of the show?

Soul Eater.

THEY BEAT THE BAD GUY THROUGH FRIENDSHIP!?

[Unwardil]

... I want to say Evangelion too... but maybe not.
It wasn't a bad ending.
It was just... wth.

Well, if you wont say it, I will.

It's not that it was a total mind frack or that the studio clearly ran out of money... It's that it didn't address any of the ideas brought up in the show. There wasn't even so much as a nod to what the hell the angels even were, why they exsisted or what the hell the Eva was doing eating one of them which might have been nice to get a hint at...

But no, all we get is this bizare badly animated acid trip about how Shinji is a gay emo kid... But we already knew that, we didn't need two horrible episodes to hammer it home.

So yeah, Evangelion, bad ending and End of Eva still didn't address any of the plot that I'd have liked wrapped up, it was just a better animated version of the ending I didn't like anyway.

[strawberryjuice]

So yeah, Evangelion, bad ending and End of Eva still didn't address any of the plot that I'd have liked wrapped up, it was just a better animated version of the ending I didn't like anyway.
Do remember though that End of Eva was just Hideki Anno trolling his fans.

[Unwardil]

Do remember though that End of Eva was just Hideki Anno trolling his fans.

Fair enough, but what I'm getting at is that the disapointing ending had nothing to do with the animation quality.

[FGfan]

No anime finale has annoyed me like Our Digital World, the last episode of Digimon 02.

Seriously, that finale was just plain wrong in so many ways.

[CartoonOverlord]

No anime finale has annoyed me like Our Digital World, the last episode of Digimon 02.

Seriously, that finale was just plain wrong in so many ways."No! Career choices, my one true weakness!" :p

[Taekmkm]

It's not that it was a total mind frack or that the studio clearly ran out of money... It's that it didn't address any of the ideas brought up in the show. There wasn't even so much as a nod to what the hell the angels even were, why they exsisted or what the hell the Eva was doing eating one of them which might have been nice to get a hint at...


Angels were genetic "what-if" evolutions of humans, born from the 1st impact when the Moon and Earth separated into two objects. They exist for survival, a-la Highlander.

The EVA ate the Angel for the S2 engine, that was clearly explained in the series itself.

[Unwardil]

The EVA ate the Angel for the S2 engine, that was clearly explained in the series itself.

Saw it a long time ago at times dubbed at times subbed so I probably missed that bit.

Either way, the ending was still a wangst fest that could have been oh so much more than it was.

[JD08]

Digimon 02 as well (Sorry 2 too sounded terrible) I just didn't like the characters we grew up with grow up and leave us with some dark unfollowable piece of WTF also I didn't want Sora to end up with Matt :shrug:

[rubberchicken]

Belabored these to death already, but I guess I'm doing it again.

Aura Battler Dunbine - The series jumps the shark about two-thirds of the way through, when everybody gets booted to the surface. For the remainder of the series we sit around and basically rehash the same frustrating episode over and over (Let's attack the Gaea Garing! Oh noes, our attack failed! Run away! Meanwhile, the Will o' Wisp hovers menacingly over Washington without really doing much of anything). Almost no meaningful character development or interaction. Then when the ending comes, we finally get some decent action, but...

When they kill the entire cast over the course of two episodes, it doesn't feel like the ending demands it - it feels like they're just killing everyone because it's the only way they can force the series to end. Completely unsatisfying.

Gundam SEED - Spend the entire show wondering what Rau's real motivations are. Then you find out, and...

Daddy (who's never mattered to the story before this point) didn't love me, so I'm going to kill everybody!

That's it?



And the honorable mention...

Yu Yu Hakusho - Don't get me wrong, I loved the character development that happened during the Three Kings arc, and I don't really have any complaints about the actual end of the series, but this has to be one of the least intense final arcs in any action show. The fate of humanity is in danger if Yomi wins the tournament, right? So why is everybody just kicking around, acting like they're having a grand old time together? Weird.

[Taekmkm]

@Rubber: Actually, Rau didn't have any real motivation besides creating chaos. And he didn't have any daddy issues, since he was a clone and you know...killed the family anyway.

[SamTheGreek]

But no, all we get is this bizare badly animated acid trip about how Shinji is a gay emo kid... But we already knew that, we didn't need two horrible episodes to hammer it home.
LOL!

Ok, you win (as usual).

Evangelion had a bad ending.

[Mr. Anime]

Dragonball Z had such an unstisfying ending. Thankfully GT gave the franchise a satisfactory ending.
I disagree.



I wasn't a fan of the way YYH ended either, although I fully admit it wasn't terrible.

Gundam 00 is a recent one that had a amazingly horrid ending. I mean it ended with the Gundam version of a Care Bear Steer out of no where. How does it get worse then that ? At least in Char's Revenge when something kinda similar happened, there was a compelling reason why. In Gundam 00, people they were fighting to the death against 5 minutes ago magically united without a compelling reason.
I agree with you on Yu Yu Hakusho, the Deamon World arc was a massive disppointment as the climax of the series but did give some good character development for Yuskue, Kurama and Hiei. Now if only it had had a REAL villain in it.

On Gundam 00 though I disgree, The 00's magical ability to make people understand each other is built up all through out the second season so it doesn't come out of left field like in CCA.



Big O
Eureka Seven (though I didn't like the series in general)
Fate/Stay Night
Final Fantasy Unlimited
InuYasha
Kenshin
Paranoid Agent
Scryed
Trinity Blood (but again, didn't like the series in general)
Witch Hunter Robin (believe it or not, I saw the ending without falling asleep)
Wolf's Rain

... I want to say Evangelion too... but maybe not.
It wasn't a bad ending.
It was just... wth.
Agreed with all of the above.



Gundam SEED - Spend the entire show wondering what Rau's real motivations are. Then you find out, and...

Daddy (who's never mattered to the story before this point) didn't love me, so I'm going to kill everybody!

That's it?

No, No, No Rau's motivation is All of Humanity are stupid greedy bastards who only care about themselves and will hate and kill each other for the most minor reasons! I, the dying clone of a corrupt man who never ask to be created but was away will bring an end to it all! So that makes him Char + Sensui + Sephiroth

[FGfan]

"No! Career choices, my one true weakness!" :p

You know, I just had to post this after reading that.

Taichi: Diplomat - okay, and this goes with Taichi's character how?

Yamato: Astronaut - Admittedly, teen bands don't usually go that far, but an ASTRONAUT?!

Sora: Fashion designer - what happened to tomboy Sora, who clashed with how "traditional" her mother's values were? Maybe she grew out of it, but crikey.

Mimi: Cooking show host - Okay, so she never matured after all she's been through?

Koushiro: Researcher - hmm, maybe this one isn't so far off base.

Jou: Doctor - Okay, this one's alright. But a Digimon doctor...

Takeru: Novellist - okay, this one was weird.

Hikari: Teacher - umm, how do you think this goes with her character?

Daisuke: Noodle cart - EGAD WHAT WERE THE WRITERS SMOKING?!

Iori: Lawyer - when did Iori get interested in legal business?

And then, everyone's favorites:

Ken: Detective - Umm, paraphrasing my friend, private investigators - in fiction, anyway - don't usually end up making a lot of money, leading to them being single. Then again, it's probably deliberate.

Miyako: Housewife - serves her right, when you think about it...


Sorry, had to get that out and down.

And before this turns into a massive debate about that aspect of a bad finale......hmmm, I've never actually seen a more disappointing one. Especially when considering the main characters are kids, and all their lives turned out so....gah, it just bugs me so much.

I was initially a bit disappointed by Death Note episode 37's leaving out the epilogue - but the more I watch it, the more final it seems in comparison, an advantage over the manga.

[animeshark]

Digimon 02. FGfan pretty much posted one of the reasons why.

Rave Master- ended before some of the more exciting arcs could start.

Kinnikuman Neisi- Did not mind the first season's ending, and I did not mind the majority of the second season, but I was hoping for the series ending to be more towards how the manga had it.

[Luna]

Off the top of my head,only Inuyasha disappointed me,because it just....stopped...While this may work for the less serious/more episodic series,having a shonen action series end without defeating the main villain is just wrong (though they're now making more episodes adapting the later volumes of the manga,so it looks like we'll be getting an ending after all :D)...

Sad/bittersweet endings don't bother me...it's only when a series just stops,without resolving the major plot points (then again,I also love Fruits Basket,which only adapted a few volumes of the manga,and didn't resolve much at the end...except that Kyo and Tohru would end up together in the end)

[Light Lucario]

Digimon Data Squad/Savers: While this isn't the worst ending out there, it is my least favorite ending to any Digimon series thus far. I did cry during most of the last episode when I first saw it but once I thought more about it, there were some things I didn't really like about it.

I didn't like how Marcus just chose to go to the Digital World with Agumon like that. On one hand, it does show how close he is with Agumon, but it also kind of annoyed me. After spending a good portion of the series looking for information about his father, eventually finding him and having their family whole again, he leaves without knowing when he'll return. Plus, Marcus staying with his Digimon partner while everyone else had to deal with the separation felt like it took something away from the ending. It also helps that all of the other characters grew during those fives years, while I didn't really get that same feeling with Marcus. I didn't like that we didn't see how the other Digimon were doing five years later either.

Maybe if it had another few episodes, I would have liked the ending more than I do now. I honestly don't think that the Adventure 02 finale was that bad. Sure, it was cheesy on how they won the last battle and some of the career choices that they ended up having, especially Yamato's, were definitely weird, but I remember feeling really content with it when I watched it years ago. I felt content with ending the Adventure series there, while I wanted more from Data Squad's ending.

[CartoonOverlord]

To play devil's advocate a little bit for this,



Taichi: Diplomat - okay, and this goes with Taichi's character how?
Tai's development throughout the series was from being reckless and cocky to a more level-headed and mature leader, its plausible that he'd become more sensible and reliable over time so he could qualify for such a job.


Hikari: Teacher - umm, how do you think this goes with her character? She's caring and had some makings of a leader, so it's not this humongous stretch, especially like some of the others.


Iori: Lawyer - when did Iori get interested in legal business?

His dad was a cop, it's plausible that he honored his father's memory by going into law.

Otherwise yeah, they either were completely out of character (Sora and Yolei), made no sense (Matt), or could have made sense if they actually built their characters up to it. (T.K.) But its pretty obvious that they just slapped that crap together at the last minute.

[Wounded_Dragon]

Eureka 7. Although to be honest, I saw my hating the end coming

after they introduced the Limit of Questions nonsense. Think about this for a second: apparently too many beings thinking at once will rip a hole in the universe. It sounds like a druggie's excuse for always being stoned: Don't mind me baby, I'm just saving the planet *puffs*

[silvanoir]

Wolf's Rain, Big O, EVA. The whole everybody dies/disappears, the world gets restarted thing... no anime, just no.

Gilgamesh- the sky fell on them. THE SKY FELL ON THEM. All because a lady was jealous of some guy's wife. So the whole world had to die because the guy you wanted was already taken? yeesh. :mad:

Blame is a manga but still... can anyone tell me what that ending was? I was so confused.

[Daxdiv]

Anime ending to Ultimate Muscle was kind of weak for me, if only because of who won in the anime. I know why it was done, it just felt a little weird seeing Kid Muscle win when he lost before Meat was able to help him and give him advice. Kevin Mask should have won.

[A.Magik]

Fullmetal Alchemist.

Seriously? Alternate worlds? Sloth is their mom? Totally abandoned all the comedy and spirit of the first half of the show? Playing Devil's advocate here...

Had no problem with the alternate worlds. Sloth stood out as a lesson on the dangers of transmutation (Like Anime1Lust, Wrath, Envy...). And let's not forget that the comedic first half of the show began with Ed making a blood-curdling scream and a little girl becoming a chimera. It's not like FMA Anime1 is the only anime to go 'Part1:Funny-Part2:Angst'. Trigun anyone?

[Rolling Cloud]

Do remember though that End of Eva was just Hideki Anno trolling his fans.

Um, no? He wasn't "trolling" anyone.

unless.. er.. Tae, help?


I didn't like that we didn't see how the other Digimon were doing five years later either.

You wanted an epilogue from Savers? D;


"No! Career choices, my one true weakness!" :p

"Beat the bad guy with wishes! :p"

[ThePRPD]

Dragonball Z had such an unstisfying ending. Thankfully GT gave the franchise a satisfactory ending.

Whaaaaaaa?


"No! Career choices, my one true weakness!" :p

Oh God that was so cliche.

[Vegard Aune]

...
Claymore. Completely lacked any sort of closure, and the fact that they diverged from the manga also makes a continuation pretty impossible.


D.Gray-man. Same as above, only that this one actually remained faithful to the manga to the end, so it might continue once the manga has gotten further.


Eureka Seven. Actually a pretty minor case, seeing how I actually enjoyed the ending for the most part... I just hated the whole thing with the moon.


Dragonball Z. I don't know, I just felt it was kinda rushed... I guess?


Soul Eater. No, not because they defeated the Big Bad by punching him in the face so hard that his head exploded, I actually found that kinda funny. What bothers me is that there was literarily nothing after that. It was just "Yay, we saved the worl-!" THE END! It simply ended too abruptly. Either the final battle should have been shorter, or they should have had another episode so we could see what happens to everyone afterwards.


NEON GENESIS FREAKING EVANGELION. ...Should be self-explaining. Completely throwing the plot out of the window and instead ending the show with a badly animated 2-episode mind-screw culminating in "Oh, maybe I'm not useless after all!" isn't exactly the best way to end a show if you ask me. I definitely prefer End of Evangelion, which, while still being excessively mind-screwy, at least FEELS like the end of a story. Granted, this ending was achieved by pretty much killing the entire population of Earth, but at least it WAS an ending.

[Taekmkm]

@Vegard Aune: The plot went with the budget.
And humanity wasn't killed. They can return anytime back to the Earth.

[Ducard]

And humanity wasn't killed. They can return anytime back to the Earth.


They can. But due to Anno's pessimism the likelihood is that many/most/all won't IMO. Several graves had already been made for the cast... There was a cut scene in which Asuka appeared by kicking over her own grave; though this wasn't animated you can still see the one that she broke. There's also rust forming on Misato's pendant which is pinned to her grave. Anyway the impression given is that these two survivors had been there for quite some time. Plus much of the relatively cheerful dialogue from the series ending, such as 'You can take whatever form your mind allows', is given a more grim context in the film by pitting it against truly gruesome visuals of Rei's dismemberment. And even that is given extra pessimistic context with Anno inserting those death threats he received from fans... It's not a very hopeful picture.

Though who knows, there are hints that Rebuild is secretly a sequel.

Btw, one concept that was considered for Eva's ending was to have Asuka become a werewolf. Yeah.

[Mad Mod 49]

Oh God that was so cliche.

You say it was cliche, but I've never seen any other anime that has the final enemy defeated by hopes and dreams rather than an "Omgsuperawesomeepicfinalbattle!" Plus, Myotismon got three beatdowns (one as Myotismon, one as VenomMyotismon, and one as MaloMyotismon in that weird dimension) and still didn't die, so really, that may have been the only way to destroy him.

When I look at it like that, Digimon 02's final episode seems better. Still cheesy, but not that bad. The epilogue with all the kids grown up with their careers, however, was inexcusably lame on many levels.


Btw, one concept that was considered for Eva's ending was to have Asuka become a werewolf. Yeah.

Okay, I know Eva is a mindscrew but come on; you're just making that up!

[FGfan]

You say it was cliche, but I've never seen any other anime that has the final enemy defeated by hopes and dreams rather than an "Omgsuperawesomeepicfinalbattle!" Plus, Myotismon got three beatdowns (one as Myotismon, one as VenomMyotismon, and one as MaloMyotismon in that weird dimension) and still didn't die, so really, that may have been the only way to destroy him.

When I look at it like that, Digimon 02's final episode seems better. Still cheesy, but not that bad. The epilogue with all the kids grown up with their careers, however, was inexcusably lame on many levels.



Okay, I know Eva is a mindscrew but come on; you're just making that up!

Not to be nitpicky, Mad Mod, but I think what they're referring to is the careers themselves being cliched, not Vamdemon's defeat.

That said, though, the careers the children all grew up to have, and the future in general, were just plain wrong in so many ways - I've given my assessments of their individual careers, so look that up.

That, and Sorato/Kenyako. How often do people end up marrying a crush they had in elementary school, or even their first relationship from junior high? Not only that, but it's so improbable that they'd grow up to have those sorts of careers, it all worked out so perfectly, it's just....aww geez.

That said, a rare case where I was originally disappointed by a finale, but then turned out liking it better than the manga was Death Note's last episode. So much more final.

[animeshark]

They can. But due to Anno's pessimism the likelihood is that many/most/all won't IMO. Several graves had already been made for the cast... There was a cut scene in which Asuka appeared by kicking over her own grave; though this wasn't animated you can still see the one that she broke. There's also rust forming on Misato's pendant which is pinned to her grave. Anyway the impression given is that these two survivors had been there for quite some time. Plus much of the relatively cheerful dialogue from the series ending, such as 'You can take whatever form your mind allows', is given a more grim context in the film by pitting it against truly gruesome visuals of Rei's dismemberment. And even that is given extra pessimistic context with Anno inserting those death threats he received from fans... It's not a very hopeful picture.

Though who knows, there are hints that Rebuild is secretly a sequel.

Btw, one concept that was considered for Eva's ending was to have Asuka become a werewolf. Yeah.

I was not bothered by the ending of both the series and the movie of NGE. I always thought that the ending of the series was mostly for Shinji to redeem himself by accepting himself(Plus, the alternate reality that was shown was interesting). The movie ending had grim feel to it, but I thought it fit the film fine by the way the movie was going (members of NERV being systmatically killed, Asuka's fate in her Eva).

Another anime that came to mind that I thought the ending should have been done better was the Betteman series. I enjoyed watching all the episodes but the last episode did not leave a definative ending. It leaves viewer wonding if the surviving members were rescued or just left at the places that they were at. That and ending the series with the just having Keita and Hinoki laughing like that just felt a bit weird.

[Ducard]

Okay, I know Eva is a mindscrew but come on; you're just making that up!

I wish. Behold! (http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv291/Ducard/sore-o-nasumono_p74-5werewolfasuka.jpg) Designer Ituko Yamashita wrote a treatment for Evangelion's ending involving, yes, werewolves. You can read some of his storyline here (http://wiki.evageeks.org/Sore_o_Nasumono), unfortunately the part with Asuka becoming infected has yet to be translated.

[FireStarterLE]

Dragonball Z had such an unstisfying ending. Thankfully GT gave the franchise a satisfactory ending.

I agree with that, such a boring and well ..... disappointing ending. Almost 300 episodes leading up to a tournament where Goku goes just short of saying "Forget you guys, I'm going off to train this kid".

*The Goku and Vegeta kids look alikes fighting in the future, "restarting" that feud. The montage of some of the important fights that happened during the series .... DBZ's ending would have been more satisfying if it had GT's.

[A.Magik]

I once heard a theory about the Digimon02 future-ending actually being an illusion created by Myotismon to neutralize the Digi-destined...meaning he won the battle...

[FGfan]

I once heard a theory about the Digimon02 future-ending actually being an illusion created by Myotismon to neutralize the Digi-destined...meaning he won the battle...

I remember seeing that, a long time ago....the whole thing is a sham! The 02 writers were on crack! Else they'd see how insanely unrealistic that ending is...

[Behonkiss]

Bobobo. An ending so lame and abrupt, even the characters were upset about it.

[animeshark]

Bobobo. An ending so lame and abrupt, even the characters were upset about it.

I remember that. I thought the company that created that anime was forced to cancel it due to numerous complaints from the audience. Was not the manga cut short too?

[Daxdiv]

I remember that. I thought the company that created that anime was forced to cancel it due to numerous complaints from the audience. Was not the manga cut short too?

I think the sequel series got cut short, but the original did last a long time. But yeah, Bo-bobo's ending was kind of disappointing, but I did like how they acknowledged and poked fun of how their the ending sucked, unlike InuYasha, which just ended.

[Light Lucario]

You wanted an epilogue from Savers? D;

Yeah, I did. The last thirty or so seconds that covered all of the main characters from the course of the series just felt a bit too fast for me. Plus, it didn't seem fair that we could see how Agumon was doing with Marcus and nothing about the other Digimon. Even though Adventure 02's epilogue was kind of weird in how it all worked out so perfectly for everyone, I still liked it and it gave me a decent enough amount of closure for the Adventure universe. An epilogue for Savers that would make me feel that same kind of closure, or take a page with the Tamers epilogue that made me wish for more of the series but content enough with what I got from the series at the same time, would be nice for me.

[strawberryjuice]

my standpoint of EoE:
I don't know why anyone would take this movie seriously...
Really, Anno was basically trying to troll his fans because he was pissed off at the fact he got all these death threats about the actual ending.

[Taekmkm]

He wasn't "pissed" at the fans, nor trolling. He wanted to give a proper ending due to the budget crash and corrupt officials of Gainax at the time for tax law problems. Given he was given death threats while recovering from depression, the most he did was put flashes of the letters and wrote the bases of Komm.

He's not like Tomino, where he did it on purpose.

[Bunai]

I'm surprised no one mentioned "Shaman King" xD

[RockmanDash]

I'm surprised no one mentioned "Shaman King" xD

Well unlike the manga which ends at The night BEFORE the final battle.. the anime actually had some sort of conclusion.

[Taekmkm]

You do know Shaman King Manga ends at them being grown up, right?

[RockmanDash]

You do know Shaman King Manga ends at them being grown up, right?

Hm? Really? O_o I had no idea, all I heard was that It ends right before the final battle

*shrugs* Then again, what do I know? xP

[Taekmkm]

Recently, a bonus 10-page chapter was released after the final chapter so the author really wants to keep writing even non-chalant things.

[RockmanDash]

Recently, a bonus 10-page chapter was released after the final chapter so the author really wants to keep writing even non-chalant things.

Ah I see, well that explains it if it was recently. I haven't read anything about Shaman King in ages. Makes me want to get back to it now.. =p

[King_of_doom]

These are mostly Anime that finish too early and the manga still had alot to tell:

Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken: I think they ended up the anime a bit too soon since they weren't even half of the story, not to mention we haven't seen the main villain in person(just his shadow) i think it would've work well since it did had alot of interesting revelation on the characters.

Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Another anime that ended too soon, the ending was kinda meh even tho they added the entire cast it wasn't that impressive also they haven't shown how all the characters develop, especially Yokishima since he was just starting to get his own powers.

Kinnikuman Nisie: I did enjoy the ending yet they should have stick with original where Kevin Mask wins, too bad they didn't continued since the manga's getting some interesting arcs like the one where all of the present Wrestlers go back in time and fight with the past wrestlers, also that Neptune Man instead of ripping the wrestlers masks he rips their faces.

Hell Teacher Nube: I think this one also deserved to have more episodes and better ending.

[HellCat]

DBGT's ending is horrible. Everyone else is dead but Goku is now an immortal extension of Shenron!.....Ugh.

0083's ending is pretty bad, mainly for the love triangle. Though it's a further problem with sidestories/untold tales- the ending in theory will never get to do much because later stories have already been told.

[ensatsu-ken]

I agree with you on Yu Yu Hakusho, the Deamon World arc was a massive disppointment as the climax of the series but did give some good character development for Yuskue, Kurama and Hiei. Now if only it had had a REAL villain in it.

I actually liked the fact that it wasn't about another major villain stepping, but rather an imbalance of political power in Demon World. Personally, I find that concept to be much more original and interesting for a shounen series.

My problem with the arc lies in the fact that it was just way too rushed. I also would have preferred a war to erupt, rather than having everything end with a tournament.

Overall, I'd agree that the final arc of YYH was rather disappointing, but at the same time, it was still far from being bad, IMO. It just could have been done so much better. That said, I do like the actual ending of YYH, in terms of where everything leaves off. It has a perfect sense of closure to it. Its just that the events leading up to that ending could have been fleshed out much better, but I guess for whatever reason Togashi either just wanted or needed to end the series extremely quickly.

[Spastic Minnow]

Mahoromatic

I'm pretty sure it's a case of the creator deciding he hates his creation.

Two seasons of our character coming out of his depression, learning to appreciate androids and realizing he has friends that love him and a town he can love and call his home. So how does it end? With our character abandoning his town, friends, beliefs, hating androids, wallowing in depression and destroyed mentally and physically. But isn't it great? Mahoro comes back at the end to remind him of the good times and apparently she was there all along... she just never decided to appear before. Oh how I hate that. And I hate Mahaoro for it too, if you care for someone try to prepare them for the possiblity you may not be around for ever. Don't say the opposite, "I'll be back and we'll be happy" and then run off and get yourself killed!

Yes, it foreshadowed a dark ending, it foreshadowed tragedy but it also foreshadowed redemption and the ability to live through pain... which was never fulfilled.

To anyone who may see this show, it really isn't bad, a fluffy love comedy with harem tropes and just a little darkness-- but skip the final episode and imagine your own. The OVAs don't help either, they're just flashbacks to happier times that ignore it all goes to crap.



Before seeing that my least favorite ending was Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances. The anime that leaves a half dozen storylines open. The ending of that show functions only as promotion for the manga, because without it you get no closure.

[Sanosuke]

Mahoromatic

I'm pretty sure it's a case of the creator deciding he hates his creation.

Two seasons of our character coming out of his depression, learning to appreciate androids and realizing he has friends that love him and a town he can love and call his home. So how does it end? With our character abandoning his town, friends, beliefs, hating androids, wallowing in depression and destroyed mentally and physically. But isn't it great? Mahoro comes back at the end to remind him of the good times and apparently she was there all along... she just never decided to appear before. Oh how I hate that. And I hate Mahaoro for it too, if you care for someone try to prepare them for the possiblity you may not be around for ever. Don't say the opposite, "I'll be back and we'll be happy" and then run off and get yourself killed!

Yes, it foreshadowed a dark ending, it foreshadowed tragedy but it also foreshadowed redemption and the ability to live through pain... which was never fulfilled.

To anyone who may see this show, it really isn't bad, a fluffy love comedy with harem tropes and just a little darkness-- but skip the final episode and imagine your own. The OVAs don't help either, they're just flashbacks to happier times that ignore it all goes to crap.



Before seeing that my least favorite ending was Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances. The anime that leaves a half dozen storylines open. The ending of that show functions only as promotion for the manga, because without it you get no closure.Agreed--that entire last episode was nothing but a wreck. Granted, it was a happy ending, but that's not enough to save it from being "lolwut?" worthy.

I also didn't like Gundam 00's ending for the sole reason that it was TOO. HAPPY. With an ending as cheerful as that one, I grow horribly bored, unfortunately. Also, Canaan's ending was pretty lame as well.

[J!!!]

He wasn't "pissed" at the fans, nor trolling. He wanted to give a proper ending due to the budget crash and corrupt officials of Gainax at the time for tax law problems. Given he was given death threats while recovering from depression, the most he did was put flashes of the letters and wrote the bases of Komm.


Believe or not, really only one of the letters flashed was a death threat. The rest were letters of praise about the previous movie.

Also the first half of EoE was originally planned to be a normal episode ( Except it wasn't gonna be as much of a mind screw, or as violent). That's why the renewal version of episode 24's next episode preview shows concept art the Eva-02 going against the mass production units and is named "Air" Like the first half of the movie.

Edit : Didn't know you posted that so long ago...my bad.

[Fool's Gil]

The ending of Desert Punk was very cheap even by Kanta's standards. The last four episodes seemed to destroy everything built up in the series, and the timeskip should've been alot longer.

[Kitschensyngk]

I refer you all to this previously recorded list (http://forums.toonzone.net/showpost.php?p=3099161&postcount=9) of my least favorite endings.

I am at least glad that they are finishing InuYasha.